Home Alone

Today marked one of the rare days that I got the house ALL to myself! Two and a half hours, to be exact! DS had hockey practice from 4:45-6:05 and then they drove one of his team mates home. DD went along to hang out with one of the boys sisters who she has taking a real liking to. Don’t get me wrong….I love my family, but it’s a real treat to be at the house by myself once in a blue moon!

On with the eats!

• 1 cup coffee
• 1/3 cup sunrise blend w/ quinoa
• almond butter
• Crofter’s ASIA preserves
• cinnamon sugar

Using coffee is quickly becoming a favourite of mine! I like to use tea, too….I just always forget to brew it the night before. I should get on that when I’m done here!

Work was smoking busy today. I broke at noon to snack on the last (stale) butternut squash muffin;

I found this lonely only hiding out in the back of the fridge. Chances are it came home from somebody’s lunch and just got tossed in the fridge (in a baggie, of course!)

I was psyched to get to the gym today because they installed the TV’s….finally! I think I got a little too excited because I was really dragging my ass by the end of the run. I slowed the speed down a bit for the last 5 minutes I was huffing so bad! DOH!

• Time: 45 minutes
• Avg Hr: 168
• Max Hr: 182
• Calories Torched: 508
• Distance: 4.5 miles

I can tell just by those stats that it was a toughie!!

I turned last night’s leftovers into a great lunch. I warmed up the rest of the bell peppers and a small piece of chicken and rolled them up into a flatout wrap that has a LC cheese wedge spread on it. On the side there were some orange slices and grapes;

Here’s a close up of the inside of the wrap;

Later in the afternoon I had an Earl Grey tea. Here’s my saying for the day;

I like that one! Just before leaving for the day I ate the last half of my Clif Bar from yesterday because I knew it would be a while before dinner time rolled around.

When I arrived home I changed into comfy, warm clothes, made a coffee and plopped myself on the couch for some Food TV. *bliss* I got started on dinner about 6pm. DS likes pasta in a big way after hockey so I combined some ground beef with a good 4 cups of homemade marinara sauce then combined it with 2 packages of store bought ravioli. That mixture went into an oven safe dish and got sprinkled with a combo of panko crumbs and marble cheese. 30 minutes in the oven and voila!

I ate maybe 4 of the ravioli….yummy! That's my pasta limit, though. For myself I baked up some butternut squash fries using one of the squash picked from the garden yesterday and I also made some bok choy with a little Ted Readers peach bourbon sauce. That blob is Dijonnaise;

Looky what came in the mail for me!

THANKS, POM Wonderful! I can’t wait to try this tea. It looks so refreshing. Well, I just finished helping with homework and now I plan to grab a bit of dessert. I’m thinking a slice of banana butternut loaf with some almond butter. Mmmm!

Bye for now!!